skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I must say, I concur with this person’s assessment of the Goog-exit feeling. I ditched GMail for Fastmail and my own domain last week. I had been putting this off for years because it seemed like such a massive pain in the ass and I was afraid that I would just end up with two email services.

In the end, it took me one evening to update every service that I cared about to use my new address. The rest (mostly e-commerce companies) I’ve been doing as I use them.
Please, Please spread this far and wide.

Us locals don't want Calif types in Austin, too many now !

The guy is nuts. If it was as wet as he claims I would not have a job anymore in Austin where 99% of my income originates. Lack of public spaces off Bee Caves ? Are You crazy, this is my main area of work. You must never have found Commons Ford Park.

Nowhere to go ? Hah, the main activity in Austin is down at the lakes, it's 100F outside in summer so everyone heads to the lakes, or the beach is just 3 hours away.

Rudeness ? Well, YEAH - - when the locals catch wind you are from California !
The lowest point in the Netherlands is 22 feet below sea level. There's going to be no meaningful difference between that and zero.
This video goes a bit into the probable topology of the links and gives a good look at how the eventual constellation would look. Eventually in the full constellation there will be 4 easy links to the birds in front, behind, left and right, those 4 will stay in largely the same relative position until they reach the highest latitude of their orbit. Those alone will make an ok link with a bit of a zig zag. The tough ones are those ~180 degrees out of phase those will be crossing roughly perpendicular and at a really high speed.

https://youtu.be/AdKNCBrkZQ4
Taboola is the scum of the internet. Their ads are all clickbait.
Well, value is human concept. Things are valuable if people are willing to give up other valueable things for them. The fact that people parted with hard-earned cash to watch John Wick 3 but not Hellboy doesn't have anything to do with fundamentals or cash flows, human opinion is the only thing relevant.

It's also not really created out of nothing. A lot of real work goes into making bitcoin a thing. Electricity isn't made by magic.

On top of that people seem to forget that market caps aren't real. Just because no holder of X is willing to sell for less than Y, and nobody is willing to buy X for more than Z does not mean all X is worth Y each or Z each or anything in between. The real value of all Z is impossible to know but probably less than Z each.
Reading over this, it seems like there isn't an offsite backup done of the database? eg to have a copy of the data in a "safe place" off AWS infrastructure

If something goes wrong with their relationship with AWS, that could be business ending. :(
one reason why i made https://hnminus.com ;)
Sometimes…sometimes not. I'm sure you've seen the blogspam articles that tell you how to fix whatever problem you're having with your computer and the first step is to download their product to do a "scan".
Okay, so they weren't permitted in until counting had been completed. They were told to leave because counting was complete, then when they came back (due to a tip, not an invitation) they were delayed at the door until all activities they wished to observe had ceased. This isn't getting any better!

Your whole argument boils down to "there's no need for observers because I trust the process". The whole point of observers is that it shouldn't be necessary to just trust the process. Right now what you and the media and HN are telling me, on pain of cancellation, is that 100% of the essentially self-selected people involved in the election are honest. That all of the dishonest people decided it was too much bother to do a day's work to influence the outcome of the election, because The Process is infallible. I guess I should be thankful that all the dishonest people didn't bother voting either, right?
The complaint by Dominion very thoroughly refutes all the accusations here, and shows convincingly that they knew they were lying. It's 107 pages and has a total of 235 footnotes: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/20463212/rudy.pdf
its huge by database standard, i worked in large multinationals and dealt with some of the their largest databases

5.7 is enormous by database standard , there is no way you can get good query performance on a 5.7 tb database without solid physical partitioning and heavily optimized queries, and most normal companies even with 200-500 GB database use datamarts to have good performance without a super complex architectures and geniuses working fro you in db admin department

the more i think about it, the more i think that 5.7 TB would be unusably huge, and if you have this much data, most wont even bother to partition, the db will be broken into several (hundreds) smaller databases
Fun fact: "off his rocker" appears three other times in this thread. It almost sounds like a talking point ..
> The vast majority of users would just thumbs down every ad they see because they believe that will result in less ads.

This... just doesn't apply to the scheme described:

>> If I clicked the ad, thumbs up, if not thumbs down. With appropriate weights this can work.
This + all the hullabaloo around Amazon / Elastic should really remind developers to carefully consider the license that they apply to their software.

FreeBSD is licensed under the 2-clause BSD license. The OpenBSD folks have a great license page where they explain their take on why two-clause BSD serves them well[1]:

> [...]putting code under an ISC or two-clause BSD license essentially makes the code as free as it can possibly get. Modifying the wording of these licenses can only result in one of the three following effects:

> making the code less free by adding additional restrictions regarding its use, copying, modification or distribution;

> or effectively not changing anything by merely changing the wording, but not changing anything substantial regarding the legal content;

> or making the license illegal by attempting to deprive the authors of rights they cannot legally give away.

PfSense ought not lie about what they do, but it's important to note that they are completely within their rights to take FreeBSD, extend it in any way they wish, and never share that back with the community.

Other licenses[2] feel differently, and before you release code to the world you should carefully consider where you fall.

[1]: https://www.openbsd.org/policy.html

[2]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html
I think that's a fair observation, but in this case, a dating app, a relational database and SQL seem like a great fit. The ends users are fairly literally SELECTING and JOINING with LIMITS and newly FOREIGN relationships and so forth :)
The author calling pfsense, "overpriced," has never actually purchased business grade network equipment. Netgate devices are remarkably affordable for what you pay for them in comparison to most of their competitors.
We are living life on the edge to an extent, but we have 5 hot standbys across AZs and regular backups + WAL archives to S3.

May not be as durable as EBS, but it's enough for me to sleep soundly at night. And with a highly concurrent WAL-G download, it takes like an hour to catch up a new replica from scratch.
(Nov, 2019) John Oliver's humorous but nuanced take on voting machine security
> Much of the modern Linux build issues are RPM vs DEB

Which in turn are not the best formats for binary distributions.
That's because they both allow for creation of very segregated sub-groups that don't inherently interact. You won't see a lot of porn on /r/all because Reddit doesn't want you to, even though at least 50% of Reddit is porn, it's just bad for business.

It's basically a "mini internet".
Between server logs disappearing, servers themselves disappearing, USB devices being plugged into voting machines throughout election night, voting machines being connected to the internet, quick destruction of paper ballots, routing of vote data through multiple foreign countries, Dominion refusing to allow inspection of source code, and Dominion apparently being controlled by Chinese companies: Why do you assume he's lying?
The alternative is, sue before the election, so that the election is held with the correct procedure. You had months. Don't sue after the election.

And don't ask for state legislators to pick the winner, either. Voters weren't voting for presidential electors when they voted for state legislators.

And don't say "you don't actually know who won". Yes, we do in fact know perfectly well who won. What you perhaps mean is "we don't know who would have won under what the rules should have been." Well, perhaps, but we know who won under what the rules were. You don't want that set of rules? Sue before the election. You had months.
Schematics, availability of parts.
Yes, but it's tricky for two reasons. First, we don't really know how to quantify the relative value of two different species. It's kind of like trying to quantify the value of a book. Losing a volume of Aristotle's Poetics is probably worse than losing a Harlequin romance. And second, the information is not just resident in the genome. We can quantify how many bits of information is contained in DNA, but just knowing the complete gene sequence of a salamander is not enough to be able to make a salamander. You need to embed those genes in the right environment, and we have no idea how to quantify the information needed to describe that. So actually putting a number on it is hopeless. The best you can do is look at the effort it would take to reproduce that information once it's lost, which is essentially infinite.
This seems insanely expensive compared to Restic combined with backblaze
I agree, this is just insane and a reminder that we’re just banging with sticks. I’ve seen more believable stuff in sci-fi movies.
Can single atom store more information than a bit?
meson has the problem of being written in Python and thus even an end-user has to endure Python library distribution.
I see Wikipedia lists it as open source, [0] despite someone pointing out the issue in the talk page. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PfSense

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:PfSense#OPNsense
With large codebases maintained by many people, sometimes it's difficult to "just" do things like that. It's a bit weird to think that no one within that large group of professional developers hasn't thought of doing a simple obvious solution. It's probably not that simple.
The explanation on that page that "maude" is being used as a placeholder for your program name seems pretty clear to me.
Elias is my hero.
I don't know which company makes them, but the machines at my polling site in Washington DC are like this. You fill in your ballot on the machine, which has clear visual feedback as you go along and helps with procedural things like "pick up to 2".

When you're done, the machine prints a paper ballot and asks you to inspect it. You then click OK on the machine, take the ballot from your booth over to a separate counting machine, and deposit it there.

It's really quite pleasant, there is a strong audit trail, and the machines afford a wide variety of assistive options (large font, headphone jack for audio, different languages, etc)

Also I had the option to get a printed ballot and fill it out witih a pen if I wanted to.
The link says: "You cannot build pfSense®™ 2.4.x from source code. No, not even with the official tools - those will just sabotage you. The repository claimed to be "FreeBSD src with pfSense changes" does not contain the source code of the kernel shipped with pfSense®™ 2.4.x, and other changes done to FreeBSD code are also being selectively ommited from that repository." It's from a few years ago so the situation may have changed.

It looks like there's a RHEL/CentOS sort of thing going on here where the code is (mostly?) open but the branding isn't.
Been thinking similar. I've been kicking ideas around on how to make something similar, but with many sides - but how many sides are there really? 5 main groups 10?

Been thinking it would be nice to have comments / replies showing the top 3 conservative takes, the top 3 liberal takes, the top 3 science, 3 libertarian? top 3 fiscally conservative/socially liberal etc.

Ability to vote up and notate inaccuracies and removing personal attacks / insults.. finding a way to stop trolls from another side upvote frivolous things.. what the icons would look like.. all sorts of things I've been thinking about this.

Seeing the two sides thing really makes me feel the 'powers that be' really want people fighting on two sides.
Don't forget "crazy" and "nuts". Bonus points if you can fit all of them in a single comment.
I wonder if you're unfairly conflating the term "social capital" with the general caustic meanness of economic "capitalism". Putnam is a political scientist, not an economist.

I honestly think that most of the relentless unpleasantness of capitalism doesn't come from capital itself, it comes from competition and conflict over scarce resources. It's this conflict between different pools of capital which makes capitalism relentless and exhausting, and the fact that such conflicts are often won by the side which starts with more for unrelated reasons which makes capitalism unfair and often of very questionable morality. I think it's relevant to the article to point out that I this model, all of these conflicts are essentially low trust environments since the actors have by definition opposing goals.

But "social capital" doesn't have to be about conflict. Let's say I am fortunate enough to have a friendly relationship with my next door neighbors. To give a cliched example, let's say I want to bake a cake and am running low on sugar. Being able to ask them allows me to finish my task without stopping everything to run to the store. Likewise, if they need to leave town for an emergency, they can call me to check on their place or walk their dog.

These examples don't involve any conflict, so it's not clear who's losing out on any of them*? The social capital of our friendship definitely made us more productive, but who wouldn't want that? This isn't about pleasing some kind of corporate manager and churning out more widgets, it's just about personal quality of life, so what's left for there to be a problem with the idea of social capital?

* I suppose if we're being extreme then we could say that the sugar providers and grocery store lost in the first exchange by my ability to avoid buying another bag. I'm not sure this is entirely true, though, since I'm very likely to buy more sugar on my next trip anyhow. They've lost out on the urgency perhaps, but as a side note I believe that urgency is the core of the other worst aspects and cruelty of commercial capitalism; urgency sometimes forces incredibly wasteful behavior in the name of "winning the race" against a competitor or many other kinds of artificial deadlines, etc. (Anyhow I digress...)
Open source licensing and why we’re changing Plausible to the AGPL license (2020)
How 20 founders met their first investor
If you have experience with analog and digital electronics it's not very hard. Atomic clocks were part of Hewlett-Packard's glory days and in that era the user got full documentation, schematics, theory, trouble-shooting guides, etc. The manuals are all still available online or on eBay.

There is also the time-nuts mailing list where hundreds of us share questions and experiences with repairing and running old atomic clocks. The archive is 20 years deep so there's lots of good info on bringing dead cesium and rubidium clocks back to life:

http://leapsecond.com/time-nuts.htm

The one problem is if the old cesium clock you buy has "run out of gas". The quantum mechanics physics experiment encapsulated inside the tube is a one-way street so once the tube runs out of cesium one has to replace it. The typical solution is to buy a few cesium clocks over time on eBay and mix parts until you have one that works well.
Off on a complete tangent here, only remotely related.

Yo, fellow four-eyed geeks.

I noticed that when lying down and looking up in a room with a light source, with my glasses on, if there is a small droplet of water on the lens (say, due to having just cleaned the glasses and not wicked up every last drop), this droplet can bend the light in such a way that when it subsequently hits the cornea and pupa, a perfectly straight, parallel beam of light passes through the vitreous humor right to the retina.

The consequence of this is that all the junk floating in your eye is rendered in "4K clarity" in a circle of light, regardless of whether it is next to the retina, or floating somewhere in the middle.

Imperfections in your cornea or elsewhere are also rendered, making themselves evident.
Totally get why you built one to meet your needs, but any thoughts on opening the app up? That is where the gap in the market is. I have a Water Rower, so I won't be buying your hardware (sorry), but if you open the app up I would be interested to try. I understand some of your workouts won't work without the resistance control, but there is a market out there for a good app. Since you already have one, might be a reasonable thing to look at. Although if all of the workouts need the resistance, than that could be a non started.

Looks super cool though. And I wish you luck. If I were in the market for a rower, and not already have one mostly collecting dust, it would be something I would definitely look hard at.
5.7 TB for an OLTP database is small?! I must be living in a different world. Obviously I know you can go that big, but I thought the number of use-cases would be limited.
> If it doesn’t spark digital joy then maybe it should go in the virtual bin.

OR... maybe... you just haven't found an app that can gracefully clean up your mess yet.

I can't help with general documents, but for photos and videos, I wrote PhotoStructure to tidy up my family's digital disarray. It's runs everywhere, libraries are cross-platform and cross-machine, it imports almost all image and video formats, has robust image and video de-duplication, and at least for the next couple weeks, is still free to use during the beta, in exchange for your feedback. https://photostructure.com/faq/why-photostructure/
If we found a sequence of DNA on some sample, and another identical sequence in that same sample, we still wouldn't know replication is happening.

However there may be slightly more requirements like the sequence has to be found in an oil film (bubble) up until it can form a skin/membrane, to protect itself, so even if it was happening on earth trillions of times every day no one would be there to discover it, and other life on the planet with a head start (bacteria, etc) would consume it before it made more 'progress' by evolution.

In the early planet there was nothing to "eat up" life as it was starting. Everything was on an equal footing.
Semiconductor Engineering: 5nm vs. 3nm
You can do this in 1password using a shared vault with your TOTP secret to generate authenticated tokens. The vault can be shared with your entire team or company.

What benefit does this app provide over 1password?
I have no desire for touch screen on my laptop.
Logical replication would be nice, but at the moment it's far too slow to replicate for heavy day-to-day use, other than doing a pg upgrade between primaries and replicas.
Am I reading that right, that 1TB of storage used would be $256 per month + bandwidth costs?
Yea, I loved Dilbert too and bought many of his books. But then he went down the crazy route and I like, nope.
> Use a 3rd party tool to generate...

Isn't that a case of "now you have two problems"? :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel#High-energy_materials

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virial_theorem
The termination clauses in their T&C's say they will give you access, post "for cause" termination, so long as you've paid your bill. Though I'm mindful that pulling a lot of data could take a long time.
I agree with all that, but I think people just make a discord server in 10 minutes when they want a niche insular community. The terrible users get blocked out and then go complain about discord server mods on reddit :)
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Have you had any encounter with astronomical interferometers?
I've heard people recommend magnesium but I don't think it will help unless you're deficient, and even then the effect will be small.
Unless you consider the lack of other viable investment options. Still not violet forever tho
Agreed. I ran a 1 billion dollar GMV e-commerce company and our primary OLTP database was around 60 GB. Everything else was moved to an OLAP database.
It's difficult because the API is m4-templated shell (configure.ac, macros) and makefiles, and so you can't easily handle any existing autoconf project without using what is effectively an implementation of m4, shell, and make.

Yes, projects themselves could move to something else, but there are many options for that (mentioned in the article). I'm not sure how much value an incompatible autotools-flavored tool would have to anyone. (If you're not templating shell, there are way better flavors of build tool, anyway.)

This is, incidentally, a software design lesson: if your input space is too big and you basically encourage people to see straight through your abstractions, you have no abstractions. (I'm facing this at work: we have an intricate set of homegrown makefiles that evolved over some 15 years, and make is hard to teach and debug, but it's pretty difficult to switch to anything else because we allowed people to write custom makefile rules too and there are lots of them. We can automatically convert the easy cases, which are the majority, but then we'd have two systems, which is worse.)
Strong disagree. The judges dismissed mainly (totally) on two grounds - laches, and failure to state a legal case. If you're just whining, the court isn't going to hear you. Get out of here with that stuff and stop wasting our time, says the court. They aren't your chance to stand up and rant about stuff.

And laches is, you didn't like the rules? Sue before the election; you had plenty of time. You wait until after? No, we're not going to let you hold the election hostage. Suing after looks like you didn't like the results you got under the rules, but you didn't have a problem with the rules going in. Why should the courts let you throw out everybody's vote because you didn't like the results? Why do you not think that is ridiculous?
We have the same definition.

My issue is that the FAA already rubber stamped this once. They've lost any credibility they have with regards to this plane.

As the other agencies I have no idea if they're susceptible to the same influence that caused the FAA to rubber stamp this the first time around.
Allowing a private company to used closed-source proprietary systems for democratic elections, and then allowing that company to sue people which call into question the validity of those systems, is peak Americanism. But of course, once Giuliani is inevitably sentenced with defamation, there will be articles everywhere saying how once again, democracy has triumphed. War is peace.
Yes there is a big risk that the vaccines won't work if the viral spike protein has sufficiently diverged from the one encoded by the vaccine's mRNA template. Viral proteins are constantly changing. They accumulate sequence mutations both naturally and due to selective pressure. There's a limited landscape of acceptable changes but we don't know what those are and how they relate to each other. All we can do is generate new mRNA templates to the more popular strains and revaccinate. This means that we will most likely we will end up taking a cocktail of mRNA vaccines and yearly boosters.. with new mRNA templates.

"Won't work" in this case is defined on a spectrum. Moderna's vaccine is currently about 90% efficacious. Newer variants could reduce that down to say 60% or more. At some point the current vaccine could become useless.